The last few weeks have been miserable for Donald Trump. The Culmination had to be the almost daily revelation about the birthday book that is at the Epstein‘s home in Florida. Virtually every politician, or famous person, who was named in the book, who had contributed birthday wishes to Epstein, indicated, that they actually had written the letters, or cards. One single glaring exception. Donald Trump now let’s be clear. The whole Epstein thing has been pushed massively by Donald Trump and his friends. It was a conspiracy of all conspiracy. The blowback, he is facing now, is internally driven by his base. Now the elections, the midterms are in 18 months. That’s an awfully long time.
The issue is simple. What percentage of the economy is dependent on tariff goods? The truth, is that the US economy is far more closed than people understand. People genuinely believe that all manufacturing has ceased to exist in the United States all given to China on the altar of woke policy the truth can be further from That statement. Only about 15% of US GDP is related to foreign trade. Of that amount, slightly more than half is from Canada in Mexico. And half of that is energy. What that means, is that about 7% of US GDP is tariff dependent. The proof in the pudding, is how little money tariff generates. People think that 30 or 50 billion is a lot it’s not in an economy that has $3 trillion. The impact on the US economy will be less visible but not absent. Inflation hasn’t occurred yet first because tests have hardly started to bite, but more importantly it’s such a small percent of the economy. Now certain things are critical. The rare earth metals from China were critical....
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